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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: February 18th, 2024
  • Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPtoRPGMemes @ttrpg.network•IIIIIGGGGGGOOOOOOOORRRRRRR!English
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    3 months ago

    Depends entirely on the situation, really. Like a large castle is going to be relatively incapable of keeping out various wildlife on a massive scale, so a bird or rat running around isn’t really an issue off hand. Maybe keep an eye on it to note any sus behavior, but otherwise animals exist. But if they’re in sensitive areas, then it becomes considerably more alarming. Sure, it could just be a rat, but it also could be a fuckin’ druid in which case killing the bird/rat/bat/whatever on sight might be a reasonable response. This also has the added benefit of allowing for a guard who might be a fan of animals and not want to hurt them, which gives the player an alternate path/chance to take things with.

    I miss DMing

  • Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPtoRPGMemes @ttrpg.network•[PetFoolery] FuckEnglish
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    8 months ago

    The art came first before any concept of anything. It was a giant black aarakocra that looked vaguely like a raven, had a glaive and various tribal imagery on the body and my jokey dumbfuck ass went “Nevermore!” which made my DM roll his eyes. All in Voice Chat. Not as hard as when he asked where he was from and I said “The Colony” and he started to spell it that way before I said “No no. Like the CAWWW-lony!” It really wasn’t anymore than that on the planning. When asked why he was a barbarian it was because his husband had died. I had so little connection to anything in the game because I was there for the inception but a meta-gaming asshole frustrated me enough that I left instead of causing shit. When the DM kicked the metagamer out he asked me back because he figured out why I had left. So I started playing this Nevermore guy instead but felt out of place with everyone.

    After a few months of playing together and travelling, his behavior was wildly inconsistent and it felt weird so I sat down with the DM and we cleaned up his backstory. Added in far more stuff but expanding on the jokey shit. A lot of the gags that he had made or random comments were solidified and expanded far further upon. Also retuned him from full barbarian to echo knight fighter/storm barbarian. So much so that when Nevermore briefly left the party for a couple of months and I was playing a character called T’vok T’kuvma (shut up), the party went into a bizarre emotional free fall for a little bit. T’vok was built as a therapist character so the timing felt appropriate but still. I was actually retiring Nevermore but after a while some random thought occurred to me how I could get him back and I got so fucking excited. Started talking to another player in the game and he said ask the DM and I did. He loved it too.

    Blind siding nearly everyone, Nevermore came back a couple months later with an entirely new setup. Now he had a new class with his other classes shifted around. Now he’s a Vengeance Paladin, Echo Knight Fighter and Barbarian and fuck me is he scary. He’s not wearing any armor and has a 22 AC. Luckily, my DM ain’t a bitch and routinely throws things into the game that will toss Nev around like its nothing. Boy saw a challenge and made for a fucking excellent game. He’s not on lemmy, I know he’ll never see this, but he’s genuinely the best DM I’ve ever had the pleasure to play for. I love the man so much. He’s a great friend who has allowed me to play with some other great friends for a very, very long period of time. So long that I even got art commissioned for. Refining the look of the original aarakocra into what he is now. Sorry this ended up being longer than I expected but I love Nevermore… he has been a consistent thing throughout a long period of turmoil and confusion. I rely on him. Maybe one day I’ll get some more art done of him, maybe of the group too. But as it stands I’ve only ever been in a position where I was able to afford it once. If you’re curious, here’s the original art that the concept was based off of and the art I had commissioned.

    Long live Nevermore <3 Long live The Firestarters. PS… Nevermore speaks with a weird blend of a Bostonian and Brooklyn accent because what better suits a barbarian?

    Note: The commission, second image, was done by Useless Elf! Want to give her a shoutout and some credit for doing a great job.

  • Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPtoRPGMemes @ttrpg.network•[PetFoolery] FuckEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Okay thats fucking hysterical and annoyed I’ve never seen that until now…

    I have a big birdboi that I love more than anything in any fictional world. He’s my rock. He somehow has survived in a game for 4-5 years now, longer than I’ve been on Lemmy, and I genuinely didn’t think I’d ever be able to play one dude for so long. However there was one specific thing I was thinking of.

    One of the PCs named Lori had feelings for another PC named Renn. But Lori also had backstory shit going on so she wanted to run off and deal with the backstory alone, like a fucking idiot. What I was unaware of and what she had not put to the party or players was that she was changing our her character temporarily. So when Nevermore, the giant black feathered aarakocra with a very on the nose name because I like to make myself laugh, noticed that she was gone only about an hour later, he took the fuck off. Haste wasn’t involved but something else was that I can’t remember what specifically it was. Either a magical item or some class fuckery due to multiclassing. Either way he managed to catch up to her relatively fast, much to the DMs frustration. I then told her off and had a whole thing trying to convince her to come back. She then made a compelling argument while sending me a message going “THIS WAS PLANNED LET ME LEAVE! I LOVE YOU BUT AAAA” and I had to have Nev back off.

    I never really use his flight stuff because as a DM myself I know how annoying it can be. I said to my DM that I’d only ever really take it to the absolute limits if there was someone in danger because it fit with the character anyway and he had no issue with that. Nev only ever busted out that level of flight (usually limiting myself to the same 30 as everyone else) about 3 times and one of those times was under DM control.